Training Log Archive: David_Waller

Event: OCIN Camp Stonybrook
 

OCIN meet at Stonybrook. This is a great event, and one of OCIN's best in terms of getting new people out to experience the sport. I overheard a lot of newcomers to the sport who really seemed to enjoy it. Hopefully, we'll see them again.

Mike set a surprisingly demanding red course, with some characteristic deviousness. Take, for example, the leg from 15 to 16. Trying to follow the red line out of 15 was very difficult, when every step of the way, the slope of the land pushes you left. It's so easy to end up too far left on that leg. 8/9 was also a nice leg, and one that duped me. After making fairly good decisions about going through or around the reentrants, I got fooled by the small reentrant west of the control. With so much dark green right in the center of the map, this has got to be a pretty challenging place to set a course. But Mike did a really superb job.

I ran great until control 8, which I must have run right past before pushing too far west into the thick green. I botched several controls thereafter (9, 11, 12, and 13) and by the time I got my navigational confidence back, I was too tired physcially to do anything about it.

OCIN Stonybrook 2011 Red - Splits

Red course at OLOU's NOD meet at Taylorsville Lake State Park. Ken Kling deserves a huge congratulations for putting this event on. His map was pretty darned good, and his course setting was thoughtful and fun. Even more, he worked registration for over 200 entrants. Very impressive job, Ken.

I navigated pretty cleanly, making a route choice mistake on the long leg, and a couple of small mistakes and hesitancies that might have collectively cost me a minute or two. But the only way to catch up the 5 or 6 minutes that Dan and Mike beat me by would have been to run faster.

Red - Splits

Slow run at Hueston Woods; gorgeous day